Category: misc

could this be a good day?

misc

yes!

Of course the media will have different topics today.

And then there is
news like this, which will cause ‘debate’. Problem being that the ‘debating’ have no clue what they are talking about. On both sides of the argument. Neither would I. My solution for this is to decide to still be excited about great news that comes form sucessful scienes. We all would not be here without science. Most people forget that, since it seems so ‘natural’ by now. All the technology surrounding us. It certainly is no. No iPhone (shit now I said the word) spuds to be found. Yet.

document root under OS X with apache

Apple misc technology

as /etc/httpd/httpd.conf will tell you in

DocumentRoot “/Library/WebServer/Documents”

the Document Root under OS X is under /Library/WebServer/Documents.

Of course you need to enable the oddly named “Personal Web Sharing”
in the system preferences under network.

misc links

misc

Zbig

unrelated:

from the internets

misc

some random links, let’s call it BlogsNow Digest:

Zfs explained: easy, brief and hands on I will upgrade to Leopard aka OS X 10.5 just for ZFS.

Pi is 3, says the Bible
Some things are so god-damn straight forward, it is hard to fathom that people run around and try to think otherwise. I

phantom cell vibrations

links

misc

couple of misc links. Curtesy BlogsNow:

Pixelmator is a future Mac Photo edit app, slated to use GPU and cost 59,- they say
drops of liquid aka coffee in milk on steroids
youTube Apple-tv to use h.264 interesting how iPhone vs. Flash will play out. Yesterday we saw already that Apple-TV is not so great

the best code: no code at all I do agree. Having added some 150 lines of code earlier today to interdubs I feel somehow dirty.
It’s official Summer since Nessy is back

zero margins in tables, as in really none

misc technology

Technology can be cruel. Spent hours this morning to figure out how to really get rid of all extra spacing in tables. Of course one has to set


margin: 0;
padding: 0;

But these was still an extra little space that bugged me. Good thing is it to have friends that know more than Google. Adib knew that the magic line would be:


border-collapse : collapse;

And, et voila, it works in FF 1.5 and safari 2.0 under OS X.

mailto mail.app no more!

misc OSX

It has been a long time since I wanted use Apples mail.app. But it still opened whenever I clicked on one of these mailto: links in a webpage. I googled and found that there is gmailto, which should do the trick, but is broken it seems. I could install it, gmail would open, but not understand the email address I wanted to send to.

Then I found Webmailer. This one works like a charm. It together with the gmail option to send email as andreas@andreaswacker.com make gmail pretty much complete. I am sure it breaks in about 7 minutes, when I rave about it like this.

apple tv

interdubs misc

a quick out of the box article about the apple-TV set top box.
The nice thing is that interdubs already supports iTunes. So my clients can show their clients work in progress via Apple TV. Today.

4 seasons

free of any reason misc

With four seasons you would think that they are equally long.
Not so:

Winter
88.994 days

Spring
92.758 days

Summer
93.651 days

Autumn
89.842 days

Source: space.com

some links

misc

list of things that improve customer relations
book about linux programming
video about journlists in Iraq
a way to clean up your desk from tech stuff
uncle fester threatens to throw a chair at a pirate